patrickgzill

I will tell you that unless something is on fire in my rack, no one from Level3 will even touch anything - and even then they would hit the fire suppression button and leave the room. They do not touch anything in a customer rack. (I have two racks in a local facility owned by Level3).

The contract I signed, had a clause that said if they had to move me somewhere else, they would pay all costs of doing so. I don't know how standard a clause this is.

Good point, it would in fact make a difference.

I read the article, they do say "colocation"; besides which, XO Communications does not rent servers as far as I know. So that seems to point that they were renting the physical space that their servers are in.

Would it make a difference if they were just renting a partial rack, or a full rack that goes all the way down to the floor and is enclosed? I don't know ...

Here is my question...

If you rent an apartment, even though you don't own the building, you have "rights of tenant in possession". Basically the apartment is "yours" and you have rights. If a search warrant is to be served to search your place, it gets served on YOU, not the owner of the buildng.

If you rent server space, like a rack in a datacenter, that space is "yours". So should the search warrant have been honored?

Go ahead and touch it anyways. I can't imagine firewalling without it.

Enlighten me... a 1U server can handle nearly 1Gbps of traffic. BGP anycast - a solved problem. How many different locations do you need? For USA - Chicago, NYC, WashDC, Boston, LA, Phoenix, Dallas. In Europe - Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Berlin, London, Paris, Moscow/StPete, probably a few I have missed. Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, HongKong. Half a rack (20U) in each location would more than cover most, though possibly the USA would require more.

What is the barrier to entry for CloudFlare? Putting a few servers in different colos, buying quality bandwidth, set up BGP anycast, get the IP Geolocation database from MaxMind. We are talking a service that could be duplicated with open source software and about $100K to $250K investment.

Bryan Cantrill (formerly Sun, then worked for Oracle, now working elsewhere) talks about Oracle in his interesting talk here: http://smartos.org/2011/12/15/fork-yeah-the-rise-and-develop...

He compares Oracle to a lawnmower - if you stick your hand in a mower, it will cut your hand off.

Oracle is simple in the way that a mower is simple - a mower cuts what is put in front of the blade. Oracle wants money from whoever they can get it from.

That is today's version. 20 years ago the equivalent of an iPad 3 was $400,000 dollars and consumed 3 kilowatts continuously.

So after this is perfected, you could grab my image, make it look like I was the person who held up a bank and shot a hostage, and all the eyewitnesses would say it was me, and could give a positive ID? What would hidden security cameras show?

CDATA means XML, most likely. See http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp

Isn't a better question: Is it possible to build a ship that ensures passenger survival even if the boat is partially destroyed?

For one, KVM virtualization does not run on Illumos, nor Solaris.

Second, Oracle is encumbering Solaris with a not-nice license. I haven't followed the latest developments because I no longer care, since I will never use a non-free OS.

Whether you meant to ask, "Why Illumos over Solaris" or "Why SmartOS or OmniOS over Illumos?" I think I have answered your question :-)

Who is it for? My view:

People who want to run ZFS for storage usage. ZFS is still better than Linux alternatives like LVM, BTRFS etc. To be picky, there is not an exact counterpart to ZFS under Linux.

And with clones etc. you can set up 1 master KVM image and then clone it 10 or 100 times, saving a lot of disk space in the process (ZFS clones only use the amount of space that is different from the original).

People who have a lot of Solaris experience or have to maintain a lot of Solaris systems already. Also people who are using Solaris zones.

People who are building backend systems that require or can use any/all of the above. Right now, no one cares what your Web SaaS service runs on, as long as it stays up and doesn't lose their data.

Solaris still has a better VM subsystem, IMHO, than Linux does, and performs very well under heavy loads that include disk activity.

The SmartOS ISO I downloaded, did not have an installer to help you install the OS to disk.

This one does, according to release notes.

Looks like they have tweaked some of the libraries and they provide both 32 and 64bit versions of Python also (this can be a pain to build sometimes as the configure tools don't always pull in the right libs, so you end up with mixed 32 and 64bit objects or other weirdness).

Also, the installer is minimal, basically just asks you what disk to install on. You do all other configuration after you have booted it for the first time.

Do you have a lot of money? No? Then no-one does.

What? There isn't fraud in the stock market today?

Free Jon Corzine! Oh, nevermind...

BTW, Univac (I believe) got their start issuing stock in exactly this fashion. You could buy a share for either $1 or $5.

The NYT may well be worth less than its current market cap, given that it has a very high overhead in terms of its operating costs, has to manage a lot of people, and is losing money - see their own reporting at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/business/media/quarterly-p...

The NYT is shrinking, Instagram is growing - that too, matters.

In the long run it means little (this single data point, I mean) - after all, it was almost as warm in 1910...

You are very, very wrong, because not only are you not accounting for state fuel taxes, but toll roads, AND, the extra fees paid by truckers and other commercial vehicles. However I am not goint to write a dissertation for your sole benefit - suffice it to say, that each 18 wheeler you see, is a source of over $25K per year in taxes. Yes, over $2000 per month.

MF Global - 1.2 Billion or more of supposedly segregated client funds, commingled and then missing. Futures contracts disrupted, lots of other irregularities.

How many weeks has it been since this came to light?

It's cool to have nearly real-time confirmation from someone who is actually there! ... I found the UCC Coffee shop to be expensive however, but I am a cheap guy :-)

If you are ever in the Phils, you can see this - ask to go to Eastwood - they have a number of condo high rises and office buildings. The first and sometimes second floors of the buildings, are filled with coffee shops and restaurants.

Philippines has a chain of hamburger joints called "Burger Machine" whose branches are often open 24x7; their song includes the phrase "the burger that never sleeps".

Sorry, I don't think your comment is very well thought-out.

How about Roman and Byzantine (Costantinople) cities, where bread was distributed for free each day to every one in the city?

And both Rome and Byzantium suffered large population declines during some of their history.

Other counter-examples include medieval Europe, where average life expectancy was 60+ and they worked less hours than present-day Americans.

Wow, this brings back memories. I was a total OS/2-Head until about 1993 or 1994 when I got both an Yggdrasil Linux CD for my 486, and, a NeXTCube; and from there, ended up a Unix fan.

The problem with installation, was that all development was done on PS/2s. The developers never did much testing on non-MCA (MicroChannel Architecture, a pre-PCI intelligent bus design) hardware.

That is why, for instance, when installing OS.2 2.0 and 2.1 on certain PCs you had to disable the CPUs L2 cache by using the legacy "non-turbo" mode and do part of the installation in 8Mhz AT mode; otherwise the installer would crash and you wouldn't know why.

I think a lot of OS/2 users went to Linux and their disgust for MS' admitted astro-turfing and plain outright lying, fueled Linux adoption.

ADD: OS/2 ran well in 32MB and flew in anything more than that. Unfortunately at that time, 32MB was hundreds of dollars, and some systems couldn't even take that much RAM.

Actually it is still accepted by CC companies to use the old hand operated machines that have a roller, that takes an impression of the card.

I recommend the 1968 or so, EB editions if you are looking for an older one. The 1972 or 1973 was the last of the classic style ones, after that they went with Micropedia/Macropedia etc. which is not what you want.

The articles are well written, and if covering pre-20th century history, literature, or other topics, should still be excellent introductions.

Mongout only pawn in game of life ...

You could even get a MicroSD card, stick it in your phone, and carry it across that way.

Is it not the case, that there are many college grads looking for work and not finding it?

Would this not serve to reduce future demand, since obviously, graduating doesn't necessarily result in better job prospects.